Within the dissipating heavenly palace, Huai Shi's figure emerged and fell toward Corpse Forest Lord, shrouded in blood-red haze.
As if diving from a high platform, he casually flipped and spun from an altitude of over a thousand meters, whistling as he plunged into that bottomless sea of blood.
There was no splash at all.
After a dull thud, he vanished.
Regrettably, there was no medal waiting for him.
Only a rapidly spreading darkness seeped through the blood.
Without warning, the earth rumbled.
Amid violent upheaval, frenzied ripples surged up from beneath the sea of blood. Deep ravines split open one after another, and then thick branches rose from the bloody sea.
Dead branches like iron burst forth from every direction without warning.
Then, a colossal black tree rose slowly, thick enough to require hundreds or thousands of people linking arms to encircle it.
Rooted in the sea of blood, it forcibly connected itself to Hell's cycle. Then the gravitational pull of the Returning Ruins devoured all life, allowing the myriad forms of vitality within it to proliferate.
The web of life formed from the essence of every plant on Yu Dai Mountain instantly evolved to perfection. Then it contracted inward, fused together, pruned away its branches, traced back to its origin, and finally merged all of Huai Shi's life within it, becoming a giant tree that pierced Heaven and Earth!
Reaching the blue vault above and the Yellow Springs below.
The central axis that ran through the Three Realms reappeared here!
—Jianmu Tree!
The blood-red sea within hundreds of miles completely evaporated beneath its roots' absorption. Tangled within the giant tree's roots and trunk, Corpse Forest Lord struggled in furious rage, yet found it difficult to escape the restraint and blockade of this axis of the Three Realms.
Even